Editorials

Daily editorials from the newspaper

Austerity and Universal Credit to continue!

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TORY chancellor Philip Hammond made a climb down in his budget speech yesterday to Theresa May, but there was no climb down over continuing...

The working people of the world must NOW take action to establish the...

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THE Palestinian presidency on Wednesday expressed its great thanks and appreciation for the strong and clear Saudi position expressed in the Saudi statement issued...

Labour Reformism Is Rotten To The Core – The Working Class Needs A Revolutionary...

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LABOUR’S defeat in the 2019 general election is a historic one, since its central feature was the way that the safest Labour seats in...

Tories planning post election war vote on Syria

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THE TORIES plan to call a snap vote in parliament to authorise British airstrikes against the legitimate Syrian government forces of President Assad should...

Johnson using fear of revolution and civil war to drive through a deal...

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Opposition parties met yesterday in the offices of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an attempt to cobble together an agreement to replace Boris Johnson...

Maliki Objects To US-Puppet Army Raid On Sadr City

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YESTERDAY was the first day after the US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad announced that he had given the Iraqi puppet government a timetable...

Kerry threatens Assad with ‘total destruction of the ceasefire – and then back to...

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US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that seeking military gains will not end the ‘civil war’. He added there...

World crisis reaching explosion point!

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AS the US government entered its first full week of shutdown, the ruling class in America and the world are in panic mode as...

Israel responds to UN resolution calling for ‘sustainable ceasefire’ by ramping up genocide!

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ISRAEL intensified its bombardment of Gaza over the weekend hitting 200 targets in a single 24-hour period on Friday and Saturday. Just one of these...

It’s still austerity, more austerity and yet more austerity from Osborne and the Tories

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The UK economy grew by 0.8% in the first quarter of 2014, compared to 0.7% in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to the...

Labour Foreign Secretary embraces Netanyahu while Palestinians are massacred in Gaza!

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LAST Saturday, at least 88 Palestinians were killed and over 289 injured by Israeli bomb strikes on the displaced peoples camp in Khan Younis,...

Forward with the Egyptian revolution

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HUNDREDS of people are reported to have been killed in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities throughout Egypt, and thousands injured after the army leaders...

Nuclear Terrorists Attend Seoul Summit

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A WORLD leaders summit in Seoul on nuclear security has called for closer co-operation to tackle the threat of nuclear terrorism. President Obama warned there...

Anc Leopard Will Not Change Its Spots!

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TOP members of South Africa’s ruling ANC party met yesterday to discuss the political crisis that has emerged in the wake of the ANC’s...

Not a very British revolution – just another attempt at a bourgeois coup

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THAT an ex-SAS officer from the 1970s, with current military-police commissioner connections through his succession of security businesses, as well as ‘strong connections to...

Gordon Brown wheeled out to save capitalism

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Former Labour chancellor and prime minister Gordon Brown has stepped forward to offer himself up as the saviour of bankrupt British capitalism. Brown made his...

Trade Unions Must Call General Strikes To Bring Down The Ruling Classes That Are...

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SPEAKING at a press conference in the Jordanian capital, Amman, on Thursday, Abdallah al-Dardari, UN assistant secretary-general and director of the UN Development Programme...

Drive Out Zero-Hours Contracts

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FIGURES released last Wednesday purport to show the UK unemployment rate for the three months to September fell to 7.4% from 7.6% – a...

Credit Suisse sold at knockdown price in last ditch attempt to avert world banking...

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THE CAPITALIST world banking system hurtled even deeper into a massive crash this weekend when the central banks of Europe, UK and US forced...

Defend NHS health care – stop the NHS becoming a business

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‘ONE million NHS patients have been the victims of appalling care in hospitals across Britain, according to a major report,’ screamed the capitalist press...

Russian troops return to bases, giving the Ukrainian government the chance to break with...

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RUSSIAN troops have completed their training drills in Belarus, very close to neighbouring Ukraine, and will begin returning to their bases, the Ministry of...

Free first class medical care and accommodation for the sick and elderly

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ONCE again PM Gordon Brown and the Labour Party have revealed that while they rushed to handing over £150 billion to the bankers, they...

Greek crisis rages – forward with European socialist revolution

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European finance ministers met in Brussels yesterday to rubber-stamp the deal agreed at the last minute last Thursday to bail-out the bankrupt Greek economy...

Lobby the TUC Congress on September 9th – demand it calls a...

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THE mass of the UK workers support the heroic national liberation struggle of the Palestinian people for their state of Palestine, and the enormous...

Bring down the Tories on June 8th to save the NHS, and end benefit...

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ON JUNE 23 2016 the adventurers Cameron and Osborne, the then PM and Chancellor, came unstuck when they lost their EU referendum and were...

Stop Royal Mail being thrown to the private equity wolves!

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POSTCOMM, the postal regulator has called for the part privatisation of the Royal Mail, supposedly to safeguard the quality of the UK’s mail delivery...

Rate cuts and printing pound notes – Brown’s recipe for disaster

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THE Bank of England yesterday cut interest rates to 1.5 per cent, the lowest level in its 315-year history, since the start of the...

Hands Off Syria – Forward to World Revolution

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THE imperialist military alliance, NATO, meets today at the request of Turkey which will be invoking Article 4 of its treaty which covers threats...

Unions Must Take Action To Defend The NHS!

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HOSPITAL managers are to shut an NHS accident and emergency department down at night in order to combat a staffing crisis, caused by the...

Nationalise car industry and the banks to defend all jobs

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GLOBAL action to save the motor industry from crisis, and above all to stave off bankruptcy at General Motors, has been urged by Unite...

Record Rise Of Public Sector Debt Means More Savage Cuts

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THE Tory-led coalition’s public sector debt for November has shot up to £23.3 billion, £5.9 billion more than the figure for November 2009. It...

Bulgarians Hit Out At Cameron

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THE President of Bulgaria, Rosen Plevneliev, has correctly rebuked Tory leader Cameron for peddling nationalism and isolationism. It is ironic that the UK – which...

World banking crisis driving world revolution!

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LAST WEEK the Bank of England (BoE) finally confessed that it doesn’t understand its own quantitative easing programme (QE) – the central, in fact...

Syria, the Kurdish people and the Turkish workers must stand together against imperialism!

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THIRTY-FIVE Syrian civilians have reportedly been killed and 75 others wounded by fresh Turkish artillery and tank fire plus air strikes on Jubb al...

ICC refuses to act over Israel’s Gaza war crimes

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PALESTINIAN youth and workers marched very bravely all over the occupied territories last Friday on Land Day, and they were met as usual by...

‘Historic shock’ of inflation will drive workers and youth to socialist revolution

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TODAY British workers and their families face the biggest attack on their living standards since records of cost of living increases were first recorded...

US Opening Up Second Front In Africa

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MILLIONS of Africans will understandably be fearful at the latest strategic initiative that US President George Bush has just announced. The president has instructed his...

Confident Of US Support Israeli Terrorists Kill Three Palestinian Youths And Torture Five Others!

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ISRAELI forces have shot and killed three young Palestinians during overnight raids on several areas of the occupied West Bank. Two of the victims lost...

Biden adds $4tn to the US’ already unsustainable debt!

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YESTERDAY, US president Joe Biden announced to a joint session of Congress his plans to unleash a massive round of government spending amounting to...

A bankrupt budget for a bankrupt economy

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THE AIM of every government in 2008 is to ‘maintain stability through the world economic slowdown’, said Chancellor Darling yesterday in his budget...

Sunak demands police crack down on all opposition to Zionist genocide.

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TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has summoned the country’s police chiefs to tell them they must use all the existing and wide-ranging police powers...

Unions must mount massive campaign to nationalise Vestas now!

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THE Vestas occupation clearly shocked the employer and weakened the Labour government to the point where a mass struggle has to be launched by...

Bush Gives Go-Ahead F0R Iraqi Regime Change

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US President George W Bush on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to the US occupation army in Iraq and all those who support the...

Panic And Alarm Over Housing Bubble

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THE OECD has in effect, accused the Bank of England and the Coalition government of blindly organising another banking disaster, under the cover of...

Record numbers miss out on first choice secondary schools – Bring all schools back...

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NATIONAL Offer Day was yesterday, with record numbers of children missing out on their first choice of secondary school. More than half a million...